#princess alice maud mary

[geraldofallon]

Fallen London’s True Identities

Princess Alice Mary Maud as the Dutiful Daughter

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Members of the British Royal Family attend the coronation of King George VI and Queen Consort Elizabeth, 1937.

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Alice, the Princess Louis of Hesse and her husband Prince Louis of Hesse at the wedding of Alice's brother Albert Edward and Princess Alexandra of Denmark on 10th March 1863.

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

Princess Alice of Hesse and her daughter Victoria, 1863

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Princess Alice VA CI (Alice Maud Mary; 25 April 1843 – 14 December 1878) was Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until her death in 1878 as the wife of Grand Duke Louis IV.

She was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Alice was the first of Queen Victoria's nine children to die, and one of three to predecease their mother, who died in 1901.

Her life had been enwrapped in tragedy since her father's death in 1861.

Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven VA (born Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine; 5 April 1863 – 24 September 1950) was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

@archduchessofnowhere is that Marie-Sophie Duchess of Alenćon next to Queen Alexandra? (it might be a different one of Sisi’s sisters but I’m not as familiar with them as you are)

Also people i can identify in this photo are (from left to right): Prince George of Greece and Denmark , Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna, Princess Louise Duchess of Fife, King Edward VII, Princess Alice of Albany, Princess Helena Duchess of Albany, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, Prince Charles Edward of Albany, Princess Victoria of Wales, Queen Maud of Norway, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (?)

[motionpicturelover]

Films I've watched in 2024.

(This list will be continously updated. For a masterpost of the previous two years, see this post.)

Click on the titles below to see the post.

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January:

🎬 Barbie (2023) - Greta Gerwig

🎬 "Adjø solidaritet" (1985) - Wam & Vennerød

🎬 "Fröken April" (1958) - Göran Gentele

🎬 "Ansiktet" (1958) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Kvinnors väntan" (1952) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Det sjunde inseglet" (1957) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Höstsonaten" (1978) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Riten" (1969) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Helmer og Sigurdson: Mareritt ved midtsommer" (1980) - Knut Andersen

🎬 "Ronja Rövardotter" (1984) - Tage Danielsson

🎬 "Efter repetitionen" (1984) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Vargtimmen" (1968) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Ocean's 8" (2018) - Gary Ross.

🎬 "Searching for Ingmar Bergman" (2018) - Margarethe von Trotta

🎬 "Skönheten och Odjuret" (1991) - Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise"

🎬 "Seks personer søker en forfatter" (1992) - Pål Løkkeberg

🎬 "Helmer og Sigurdson: Septembermordet" (1980) - Nandor Hamza

🎬 "The Magic Flute" (1995) - Valeriy Ugarov

🎬 "Galgemannen" (1983) - Magne Bleness

🎬 "Making of Autumn Sonata" (1978) - Ingmar Bergman and Arne Carlsson

🎬 "Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain" (2001) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet

🎬 "Lån meg din kone" (1958) - Edith Carlmar

February:

🎬 "Drive" (2010) - Nicolas Winding Refn

🎬 "Blue Valentine" (2010) - Derek Cianfrance

🎬 "Helmer og Sigurdson: Spøkelsesbussen" (1980) - Pål Bang-Hansen

🎬 "The Breakfast Club" (1985) - John Hughes

🎬 "Carnal Knowledge" (1971) - Mike Nichols

March:

🎬 "The Making of the Producers Album" (2001)

🎬 "Harold and Maude" (1970) - Hal Ashby

🎬 "The Princess Bride" (1988) - Rob Reiner

🎬 "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" (1992) - David Lynch (The Extended Blue Rose fancut)

🎬 "Mødrekupé" (1969) - Magne Bleness

🎬 "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994) - Mike Newell

🎬 "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris" (2022) - Anthony Fabian

🎬 "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971) - Robert Stephenson

🎬 "Leve sitt liv" (1982) - Wam&Vennerød

🎬 "Line" (1961) - Nils Reinhardt Christensen

🎬 "Venner" (1960) - Tancred Ibsen

🎬 "Stimulantia" (1967)

April:

🎬 "ShakespeaRe-Told: The Taming of the Shrew" (2005) - David Richards

🎬 "Flash Gordon" (1980) - Mike Hodges

May:

🎬 "Soldat Bom" (1948) - Lars-Eric Kjellgren

🎬 "Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen" (1941) - Ivar Johansson

🎬 "Cruel Intentions" (1999) - Roger Kumble

🎬 "9 to 5" (1980) - Colin Higgins

🎬 "Larmar och gör sig till" (1997) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Presumed Innocent" (1990) - Alan J. Pakula

🎬 "Bergman Island" (2004) - Marie Nyreröd

🎬 "I Bergmans regi" (2003) - Torbjörn Ehrnvall

🎬 "Saraband" (2003) - Ingmar Bergman

🎬 "Tystnad! Tagning! Trollflöjten!" (1975) - Katinka Faragó & Måns Reuterswärd

🎬 "Castaway" (1986) - Nicolas Roeg

🎬 "Lisztomania" (1975) - Ken Russell

🎬 "Alice in Wonderland" (1999) - Nick Willing

🎬 "America's Sweethearts" (2001) - Joe Roth

June:

🎬 "Valentino" (1977) - Ken Russell

🎬 "Georgy Girl" (1966) - Silvio Narizzano

🎬 "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1967) - George Roy Hill

🎬 "Prêt‐à‐porter" (1994) - Robert Altman

July:

🎬 "La Piscine" (1969) - Jacques Deray

🎬 "Anna Lans" (1943) - Rune Carlsten

🎬 "The Turning Point" (1977) - Herbert Ross

🎬 "Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort" (1988) - José Pinheiro

🎬 "Le Battant" (1980) - Alain Delon

🎬 "Wit" (2001) - Mike Nichols

🎬 "Plein Soleil" (1960) - René Clément

🎬 "The Girl on a Motorcycle" (1968) - Jack Cardiff

August:

🎬 "Die Hard With a Vengeance" (1995) - John McTiernan

🎬 "L'inconnue de Hong-Kong" (1963) - Jacques Poitrenaud

🎬 "Vingar kring fyren" (1938) - Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius

🎬 "Women in Love" (1969) - Ken Russell

🎬 "John Gabriel Borkman" (1978) - Per Bronken

🎬 "Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell" (1999) - Tom Kinnimont and Peter O'Toole

🎬 "Mrs. Dalloway" (1997) - Marleen Gorris

🎬 "Fant" (1937) - Tancred Ibsen

September:

🎬 "Gjest Baardsen" (1939) - Tancred Ibsen

🎬 "Kong Lear" (1985) - Per Bronken

October:

🎬 "Voldtekt" (1971) - Anja Breien

🎬 "Bryllupsfesten" (1989) - Wam&Vennerød

🎬 "Columbus ankomst" (1986) - Per Bronken

🎬 "Toralv Maurstad: En lek med livet på scenen" (1993)

🎬 "Hvem har bestemt..!?" (1978) - Petter Vennerød

🎬 "Fleabag" (2019, NT Live) - Tony Grech-Smith & Vicky Jones

🎬 "Hønsesuppe med byggryn" (1969) - Magne Bleness

[corallapis]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 9th April 1923

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Monday 9th April — Hackwood¹

Have been spending a few days here … a simpatico party … Lady Curzon, glittering, gracious and a supreme hostess, all the Duggans;² Lady Patricia Herbert³ (the very nicest girl in London, although Lady Mary Ashley⁴ runs her neck and neck …) … Mrs Vansittart,⁵ an affected American, Paul of Serbia⁶ …. Lord Curzon is away doing a Coué cure⁷ for the benefit of his leg or brow beating some important conference for the welfare of civilisation … I forget which. Lady Curzon told us of a conversation she had with Lord Balfour⁸ a few evenings ago. He was unusually playful and she depressed and discouraged, she is subject to unaccountable fits of Weltschmerz,⁹ which result, I think, from something unsatisfied in her.¹⁰ He tried to console her and talked to her beautifully about life and all she had to live for … her husband, the world’s most striking and brilliant man … her children charming … her friends many … her beauty unsurpassed. Next day he wrote her an inimitable note to say how much he had enjoyed being next to her. She, delighted, said to Lady Cunard¹¹ as she read it: ‘AJB is an angel — I should like to kiss him on the forehead’. Maud repeated this to him and his only comment was: ‘Why the forehead?’ Maud Cunard motored to Hackwood with Serge Obolensky¹² for what she calls ‘the day in the country’ on Sunday. They arrived at six o’clock. She pretended never to have seen plus fours before and said ‘And what has little Paul got on? And Chips¹³ too what are they?’ She made us rock with laughter for two hours with stories about herself and her hatred of the country, etc. She said that all Nancy’s troubles were due to the fact that her father ‘my dear at the age of 12 had put her … put her on a horse, a four-legged horse’. As she was leaving we loaded her car with guns, tennis racquets, golf clubs, etc. She was much flustered at this or pretended to be and shook hands with a footman and ‘bobbed’ to the butler and was amazing but delicious … all pink and white, like a sweet, and dressed in a costume de sport made by Vionnet.¹⁴ Serge was anxious to return as he is wooing Alice Astor.¹⁵ I introduced them … I shall now have this new romance on my conscience.

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1. Hackwood Park, near Basingstoke in Hampshire, rented by Lord Curzon from 1906 until 1925.

2. Lady Curzon’s children by her first marriage: Alfred Duggan (1903–64), who became a minor novelist; Hubert Duggan (1904–43), Tory MP for Acton from 1931 to 1943 and anti-appeaser in the 1930s; and (Grace) Marcella Duggan (1907–95).

3. Patricia Herbert (1904–94), by courtesy Lady Patricia Herbert from 1913, daughter of the 15th Earl of Pembroke and 12th Earl of Montgomery, married in 1928 William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden (1903–48). She was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth from 1937 until 1994.

4. Lady Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper (1902–36), daughter of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, married in 1928 Napier George Henry Sturt (1896–1940), who in 1919 succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Alington of Crichel. He died on active service in Egypt during the Second World War, though of drink rather than in action.

5. Gladys Robinson-Duff (1892–1928), daughter of General William C. Heppenheimer of the United States, married in 1921 Robert Gilbert Vansittart (1881–1957), who would be Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1930 to 1938, and who would be raised to the peerage in 1941 as 1st Baron Vansittart. Vansittart was also an accomplished novelist, playwright and poet.

6. Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893–1976) had known Channon at Oxford and would remain one of his closest friends, and be Prince Regent of Yugoslavia (the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) from 1934 to 1941 during the minority of Peter II. He was the nephew of King Peter I and married Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark (1903–97), sister-in-law of Channon’s other closest friend, the Duke of Kent. After treating with the Germans in 1941 Paul was forced from Yugoslavia and forbidden ever to return; the post-war communist regime stripped him of his property and proclaimed him an enemy of the state. Until 1945 the British authorities held him in Kenya under house arrest. Serbia rehabilitated him posthumously in 2011, after which he was reburied with Princess Olga and their son Nicholas.

7. A psychotherapy-based cure featuring auto-suggestion, fashionable but heavily criticised at the time, developed by Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie (1857–1926), a French psychologist.

8. A. J. Balfour, raised to an earldom in 1922.

9. World-weariness.

10. Curzon was desperate for a male heir (he had three daughters from his first marriage) to the earldom and marquessate he had obtained; various medical procedures had been followed to help Lady Curzon conceive, but no child resulted and the marriage was strained accordingly.

11. Maud Alice Burke (1872–1948), born in San Francisco, married in 1895 Sir Bache Cunard, 3rd Bt (1851–1925), grandson of the shipping line’s founder. They had lived largely apart since 1911, Cunard basing himself in Leicestershire where he enjoyed field sports. In London with their daughter Nancy Clara (1896–1965), Lady Cunard – who after her husband’s death became known as ‘Emerald’ – established one of the leading salons of the era, which thrived until the Second World War. After separating from her husband she became the mistress of Sir Thomas Beecham, the conductor, and funded many of his musical projects.

12. Prince Sergei (‘Serge’) Platonovich Obolensky Neledinsky-Meletsky (1890–1978) had been educated at Oxford and became part of the Russian diaspora after the revolution. He emigrated to America and became a successful businessman.

13. The first time in the diaries that he refers to his nickname.

14. Madeleine Vionnet (1876–1975) was one of Paris’s leading fashion designers of the interwar years.

15. Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902–56), daughter of John Jacob Astor IV. She and Obolensky married in 1924 and divorced in 1932. She would marry four times before her death at the age of 54.

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Ever since the passing of the most devout Maud Green, Alice had felt a kinship to the daughter of the last Queen of England. Mostly, because her mother had always spoken of the fairness of Catherine of Aragon, the stories woven into nighttime hymns, the higher grasp of wanting to do well by her mother a constant yearn to her very soul. Even after her death, Alice had found it easy to put some of the love reserved for her kin to the royal-blooded Princess before she thus became a Queen of Spain. Compared to her siblings, it was Mary Tudor who seemed to glimmer with the blood of Ancient Gods — a royal quality not forged but only born into. By that fact alone, Alice swore her fealty, even if the manner of religion was far from the Viscountess’ own interests. What remained was survival, the constant dance played beneath her feet — the burning fires a threat to both herself and her family who were part doomed to the name of Seymour and part aligned with the quick-wit of a Parr. 

Though she had been far from prepared by an Iberian visit to the English Court, Alice took care in the way she presented herself, with haste she read the letters sent from her niece who had been among the receiving party at Dover, preparing her fingers and neck with the jewels given to her mother by the hand of the last Queen of England — though, there was no reality where she emerged grander than Mary Tudor, who had the entirety of the country at a stand still, as if waiting with bated breath. “Your Majesty,” she greeted, when faced with the Queen, her curtsy as low as she could muster, her eyes bowed towards the floor before she was received. “You may not remember me, but my mother was a loyal Lady to Her Majesty, Queen Catherine. And I welcome you upon your home shores now, to let you know that you have been dearly missed.” @lareinamaria

[thmagdalene]

The loss of James was keenly felt, it was as if she suffered from a phantom pain — her heart ached with the distance that stretched across ocean and land till the string was taut with tension. It didn’t help, thereafter, that Alice felt the shift of powers begin their fateful dance. With the Princess set with an honourable title and the ever righteous return of Mary Tudor teased in gossip passed from mouth to ear, Alice felt the distinct need to protect those who meant the most to her. Previously, she had thought the precarious stability of the Grey daughters her most important task — but with the danger, and sudden loss of the protection naturally boasted off by Cecil, Alice had been forced to bundle her offspring into her own ideas of safety. Arthur, who had been beneath the court tutor instructed to educate the older children in any such ideal that may appear in court life (Latin, Greek, etiquette…) and Catherine, who had been by Alice’s side whenever she was found behind closed doors, were instead taken from their rooms and instead parcelled into an awaiting carriage due to take them out of the city and back into the renewed palace of Wulf Hall, where they would remain till a further extraction — perhaps to some Irish connection, or upon an awaiting ship where they could make some claim to Spain where her mother had once dreamed off whenever her Mistress, the late Queen, waxed upon the beauty of sun drenched shores. 

In truth, those were fantastical ideas — but Alice could not help but prepare for an escape, to twist herself, the son and the daughter into safety whilst throwing her husband to the wolves. If she had to, there was no qualm in defending herself by claiming that a Seymour had plotted against the crown — after all, anyone would’ve believed it, even in the face of a man who had once betrayed his siblings in order to keep his head. But even as the court remained a constant rumble of suspicion and gossip, Alice was forced to stay her ground in order to secure her children’s escape — and in some moment of desperate need she found herself straying to the one person at court she could trust without the comfort of Cecil to depend upon. 

Penelope Walsingham was married to the Spymaster, a man who’s history was slathered in legend of torture, murder and lies. So, she could not help but find it hard to imagine him anything other than a foe — after all, in some rebellion Alice had continued to seek Mass behind the public’s back, and whispered her support of the return of Mary Tudor in some last bout of love once emboldened by her mother’s undying loyalty. But, Alice was not her mother, the ever faithful Maud Green who had died of a broken heart to serve Catherine of Aragon in her last, painful years as an exile. Instead she had inherited her father’s intelligence, her quick wit the only such thing saving her from warrants signed in her name — if her loyalty remained anywhere, it was to herself and the ones of her blood, and against the logic that presented itself, Cecil as well. 

But, Penelope and Alice had met long before the days of matrimony and status, and though some thought to shun the coquettish nature that claimed the Parr girl, Penelope had only sought friendship. Together they had shared secret gossip, with their heads close Alice had shared what she knew about the warrant on Anne Boleyn, and then to the legitimacy of the then Prince and Princess. Later, they would walk shoulder to shoulder with matching stomachs that blossomed with the promise of life — and though the claim of her first son’s parentage had never quite made it to her lips, the knowledge was there for her to weave together, and if provoked, Alice would find herself at confession. 

It was then, without their safety nets bracing for their dependent falls, that Alice sought her private audience. Arm in arm, she watched as Penelope’s attention wavered into the unknown. She assumed that the Lady Walsingham thought of her husband and then her daughter; and upon finding themselves very much alone, she dropped her voice to a whisper, her blue gaze finding the other’s in a sense of urgency. “Listen, tonight Arthur and Catherine will be taken out to Wulf Hall… Would you wish to see Cecily in that same carriage? It can be done, Penelope — I will keep them safe,” she hushed, her words hushed and weary as she drew Penelope to a final stop, the hall stretching out behind and before them in the last dregs of daylight. “Do not tell your husband, he will disapprove of Wulf Hall. But I swear, it is no longer a Seymour safehold. It is mine, it is entirely Parr. You must think of Cecily.”

it was a cool day much like this when penelope first met alice, years ago now, when they were both but young maidens, tittering at the edges of groups of ladies. shifting to attempt to find place for themselves within all of it, pressed hands as they walked, heads turned to one another as they whispered things to the wind. soon enough they had become waddling mothers, matching bumps that grew as snow covered the ground and melted once more, sharing worries and fears as if they were currency. and when the children had came, penelope had watched with careful eyes as her sweet alice dropped from favor, the titling rumors of the child that penelope regarded with mild curiosity but paid no true mind to. alice had guarded penelope's deepest secret with a reverent faith, and so penelope guarded her friendship with alice, continuing their walks and whispering to alice's ears little jokes about the cruel women.

let the wind carry them back to the women, with a playful quirk of her lips as they sputtered and furrowed brows at them. what a pity that cruelty turned some ladies so ugly. now, they were older and maybe a bit wiser, no longer the spotlight of a court full of pitfalls and traps, but rather thoughtful observers on the sidelines. at least for a few more years till their children would grow to higher standings, though penelope knew alice often worried for her eldest still. 

now, alice's company is a brief reprieve from penelope worrying over thomas' journey or whether their own daughter would have to join them again soon. the cromwells returning to court made her a bit uneasy, though she felt more unsettled with neither daughter or husband within her grasp or sight, no way she may physically protect them from harm. " please carry forgiveness in your heart for me, sweet alice, my mind has been swept away in the breeze it seems. for i do not hear a word that you spoke," she said softly, a faint smile on her lips as she apologetically pressed a hand to their cojoined arms as they walked. " you were ruminating on the princess' court as of late?"

closed event starter for @thmagdalene | home front.

[princessvictoriamelita]

Royal Wedding on 15 October 1913 at the Chapel Royal, St. James' Palace, London (part 2).

The beautiful bride

The bridal couple with the bridesmaids

The bride's attendants were:

Princess Maud, the bride's sister.

Princess Mary of the United Kingdom, the bride's maternal first cousin and daughter of King George V.

Princess Mary of Teck and Princess Helena of Teck, daughters of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Teck (brother of Queen Mary).

Princess May of Teck, the bride's maternal second cousin and daughter of Prince Alexander of Teck (brother of Queen Mary) and Princess Alice of Albany.

Photographs of wedding guests and bridesmaids outside a house in Portland Square, taken after the wedding.

The happy couple waving at the crowd.

After the wedding

Source: Most of the photos are from the Royal Collection Trust.

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Portraits of the British Royal Family taken after the coronation of King George VI in 1937

(colourised with MyHeritage)

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[heavyarethecrowns]

Pomp and Circumstance Spam (Part 3)

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and her grandmother Victoria, Duchess of Kent, 1860.

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Princess Alice VA CI (Alice Maud Mary; 25 April 1843 – 14 December 1878) was Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until her death in 1878 as the wife of Grand Duke Louis IV.

She was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Marie Louise Victoire; 17 August 1786 – 16 March 1861), later Princess of Leiningen and subsequently Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, was a German princess and the mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

[grandmaster-anne]

1893: The wedding at Buckingham Palace of the Duke of York, later King George V (1865 - 1936) and Princess Mary of Teck (1867 - 1953). From left to right (back) - Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh, Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Victoria of Edinburgh, the Duke of York, Princess Victoria of Wales, and Princess Maud of Wales. From left to right (front) - Princess Alice of Battenberg, Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret of Connaught, the Duchess of York, Princess Victoria of Battenberg, Princess Victoria Patricia of Connaught.